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William M. Odom

Odom studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and in Europe. He became the head of Parsons' Department of Interior Design in 1912 and president of the school in 1930. He established and directed the Paris Ateliers. He was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1928 and authored “A History of Italian Furniture.”